Ovidius de arte amandi et de remedio amoris cum comento.

Accession number: 
PML 614
Author: 
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
Published: 
Impressit Lugduni : Joa[n]nes Vingel, Anno salutis .M.cccc.xcv [1495].
Description: 
lxxiiii leaves ; 26 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r, followed by Vingle's printer's mark.
Imprint from colophon, leaf k2v: Enarrationes i[n] ovidiu[m] de Arte ama[n]di: [et] de Remedio amoris dilige[n]ter: [et] accurate co[m]positas a Bartholomeo Merula ma[n]tuano Impressit Lugduni Joa[n]nes vingel Anno salutis .M.cccc.xcv.
The Grenoble copy reproduced by Pellechet (8703c) shows a variant in the colophon: Luduni Joannes, against Lugduni Joānes (BMC).
Printed in Vingle's types 1:81G and 2:69G.
Signatures: a-i⁸ k⁴: 76 leaves, leaves k3-4 blank.
Paper format: Median quarto.
Commentary by Bartholomaeus Merula.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25 x 17 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: k3-4 (blanks).

Binding: 
19th-century French 1/2 brown goatskin, with mottled paper sides, over paper boards (26 x 18 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Canape-Belz. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt top edge.
Variant Title: 

Title in ISTC: De arte amandi et De remedio amoris

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Extensive contemporary marginal and interlinear notations, quite faded from paper being washed. Archway drawing added around printer's mark, in same ink as Galhardo inscription and marginal notations.

Provenance: 
Galhard, contemporary inscription: "I[s]ta est de galhardo" (leaf a1r), in same hand as drawing and marginal annotations; unidentified inscription: "Ex Lib. Kon(?)" written under printer's mark, 16th/17th century (leaf a1r); unidentified English catalogue sale lot (front endleaf verso); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Decorated papers (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books